<
tool> A file
compression and archiver utility for
MS-DOS
and
Microsoft Windows from
PKWARE, Inc.. PKZIP uses a
variation on the
sliding window compression
algorithm. It
comes with
pkunzip and
pklite and is available as
shareware from most
FTP archives in a self-expanding
MS-DOS executable.
Current versions as of 1999-10-07: PKZIP 2.60 GUI for
Microsoft Windows 3.1x,
Windows 9x,
Windows NT; PKZIP
2.50 Command Line for Windows 9x NT; PKZIP 2.04g for
MS-DOS;
PKZIP 2.51 for
Unix, (
Linux,
SPARC Solaris,
Digital,
HP-UX,
IBM AIX and
SCO Unix); PKZIP 2.50 for
OS/2;
PKZIP for
Open VMS/
VAX.
WINZIP is a version with a
GUI for
Microsoft Windows.
A distribution in about 1995-06-22 claiming to be "PKZIP 3"
was actually a
Trojan horse which attempted to reformat the
hard disk and delete all files on it.
http://pkware.com/catalog/pkzip_win.html.
[
Status, history of WINZIP, PKLITE?]
(1999-01-16)